[s-cars] Low fuel gauge level

Kirby Smith kirbyasmith at gwi.net
Sat Jan 15 19:03:30 EST 2005


Mark Pollan wrote:
> I too had a flakey fuel gauge, but my fix was not at all invasive.  Somebody
> on this awesome list suggested that the float/sending mechanism is nothing
> more than a variable resistor that may be gummed up.  This same person who
> resides in anonymity inside of my well pickled brain further suggested
> running some techron through the tank.  Well, I did and voila, all is well.
> 
> I'm not saying that you may not have to go in there as Chris wrote, but in
> my case I got lucky.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> 

I did report a few years ago when I bought my S6 that I cured a high 
hysteresis gauge readout by using Techron.

kirby


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